LG has announced that its stretchable displays, which were first shown off at CES 2023, have had a new reveal at a fashion show. The technology, which LG is now calling “Stretchable,” appeared as part of clothing and bag concepts at the 2025 Seoul Fashion Week.
The displays were attached to the front of clothes, sleeves and clutch bags designed by Korean designers Yoonhee Park and Chunchun Lee. “We were able to design a future fashion concept using new materials that have never been seen before,” Park said.
Stretchable displays can be stretched, bent and twisted, going a step further than the bendable and twistable displays used in foldable smartphones. To make it more flexible, LG made the substrate material from silicon similar to that used in contact lenses, and used micro LEDs smaller than 40 micrometers for the light source. LG says it can stretch from 12 to 14 inches, or about 20 percent.
Flexible wearable technology has also been actively explored in the fields of fashion and invisibility cloaks. The South Korean government launched a national project to test the commercial viability of a new type of wearable technology across multiple industries. The main challenge was making it fabric-like rather than hard plastic, but LG seems to have at least partially solved the problem.
